Alexander Sprot
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Succeeded by | Jennie Lee |
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Born | 24 April 1853 |
Died | 8 February 1929 | (aged 75)
Political party | Scottish Unionist |
Education | |
Sir Alexander Sprot, 1st Baronet,
Early life
The only son of Alexander Sprot (1823-1854) of Garnkirk, Lanarkshire, of a family formerly of Edinburgh that owned a brick-making works, and Rachael Jane (daughter of Peter Cleghorn, of Stravithie),[1] he was educated at Harrow School and at Trinity College, Cambridge.[2]
Military career
Sprot was commissioned into the
Political career
He unsuccessfully contested
Personal life
In 1879 he married Ethel Florence Thorp, daughter of Deputy Surgeon-General Edward C. Thorp, MD. They had nine daughters, of which two died in infancy. Of the other seven all married military or naval men save Alix, who took holy orders in Palestine.
- Rachel Sprot (1880-1882)
- Ethel (Mice) Grace Sprot (1881-1967) married 1904, Colonel Hereward Sadler OBE DL JP.
- Mabel Elizabeth Sprot (1883-1983), MBE, who married in 1904 Sir George Stirling, 9th Baronet
- Alix Isabella Sprot (1884-1972), who became an Abbess in the Bethanyin Palestine.
- Constance Sprot (1886-1886)
- Sarah Douglas Sprot (1887-1975) married 1913, Major William Edgar Mann (1885-1969), Baronet. Their son, Major Edward Charles Mann (1918-1959), D.S.O., M.C., 12th Royal Lancers, of The Mill House, Dunsfold, Surrey, was father of Sir Rupert Edward Mann, 3rd Baronet.[5]
- Rachel Septima Sprot (1890-1983) married 1920, Lieutenant Colonel John Reginald Noble Graham VC OBE.
- Harriet Hill Sprot (1893-1976) married 1920, General Sir Thomas Sheridan Riddell-Webster GCB DSO.
- Nancy Margaret Sprot (1895-1994) married 1935, Captain Chicele Keppel Bampton RN.
Sir Alexander was also Master of the Fox Hounds with the Fife Hounds. He was created a baronet in 1918.
References
- ^ Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom, 1908, p. 1809
- ^ "Sprot, Alexander (SPRT871A)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "No. 27282". The London Gazette. 8 February 1901. p. 846.
- ^ "The War - officers returning home". The Times. No. 36746. London. 19 April 1902. p. 12.
- ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 2003, vol. 2, pp 2591-2593